Brooklyn: Confraternity of the Precious Blood, 1952. 16mo (5 1/3 inches tall), original soft green leatherette, green endpapers, green silk ribbon marker. About-fine. THOMAS AQUINAS IN YOUR POCKET: "HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME IS PRESENTED THE MASTERPIECE OF ST. THOMAS--THE SUMMA THEOLOGICA--IN A POCKET EDITION" This was the first distillation... More
St. Louis: B. Herder Book Company, 1925. First edition. Octavo, original half white cloth and black paper boards with printed label, original dust jacket. Offsetting to free endpapers, gentle shelf-wear to corners, minor bumping to top of boards, loss to upper margins of dust jacket, not affecting text. Very good... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1967. First edition. Small octavo, original half gray cloth and brown paper boards, original dust jacket, uncut. Very faint tanning to blank flyleaves, owner signature to front pastedown, closed tear and crease to upper front panel, laminate lifting in lower corner, small smudge to rear... More
Westminster: The Newman Press, 1956. First edition. Octavo, original mauve cloth, original dust jacket. Offsetting and early owner signature to front pastedown and flyleaf, small blemish to top rear panel of largely fresh and clean dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "THE GREATEST ENGLISH EXPONENT OF THOMISM" First American edition of... More
Herder and Herder, 1967, 1969. First edition. Two volumes. Octavo, original gray and original black cloth, original dust jackets. Volume II Augustinianism) is mildly ex-library with only blank card pocket, and “Theology” written in ink, on the free front endpaper. A near-fine pair. Pair of first American editions of Henri... More
St. Louis: B Herder Book Company, 1956. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Book about-fine, dust jacket with only minor rubbing to front panel, creasing and closed tear to back panel. A near-fine copy. First edition of Garrigou-Lagrange's work on Aquinas, a commentary on the first section... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1955. First edition. Small octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. Early owner signature on free front endpaper, dust jacket with price struck through on front flap, toning to spine, wear to upper corners. An excellent copy. "HUMAN LAW CANNOT REPEAL ANY PART OF DIVINE LAW... More
New York: Random House, 1958. First edition. Octavo, original navy cloth, uncut, original dust jacket. Top edge of book a bit dusty, corners a bit bumped. Toning to spine of dust jacket. Very good indeed. "A REVOLUTIONARY PLAN FOR A CAPITALIST DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH TO PRESERVE OUR FREE SOCIETY" First... More
New York: Philosophical Library, 1955. First edition thus. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. Book fine, early owner initials (dated 1959) to upper corner of blank flyleaf, short closed tear to base of rear panel of the bright dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "THE BEST A PHILOSOPHER CAN DO... More
London and New York: Geoffrey Bles/Charles Scribner's Sons, 1954. Early edition. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. Small bookseller's label to rear pastedown, minor edge-wear and toning to spine of unclipped dust jacket. Very good indeed. Mid-century American edition of a series of pre-war lectures by Jacques Maritain, an... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979. First edition. Large octavo, original black cloth, yellow top edge, original dust jacket. A nearly-fine copy. First edition of Flannery O'Connor's engaging letters, an essential component of her published body of work. It was easy for readers in the 1950s and early 60s... More
New York: Herder & Herder, 1968. First English translation. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. Nearly-fine book with early owner signature to blank flyleaf, price-clipped dust jacket with only minor wear to the corners and spine ends. A near-fine copy. "A BRILLIANT AND FAR-REACHING INTERPRETATION OF A SINGLE ARTICLE... More